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On 8/23/2021 12:24, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2021-08-23 at 16:36 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>>> On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, Anthony G Basile wrote: |
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>> |
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>>>>> **WARNING** |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> If you happen to have an INSTALL_MASK with a blanket "*systemd*" |
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>>>>> glob, you will inevitably break your system. sys-fs/udev |
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>>>>> contains |
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>>>>> "systemd" in some of its filenames, hence a blanket filter rule |
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>>>>> will |
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>>>>> likely lead to a non-functional udev installation. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Will an INSTALL_MASK of "/usr/lib/systemd /etc/systemd" cause any |
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>>>> issues? |
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>> |
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>>> I have not tested, but I think so since "systemd-" is used as a |
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>>> prefix |
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>>> for files installed by sys-fs/udev. |
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>> So, we've abandoned the systemd USE flag, and I remember that one of |
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>> the arguments was that users could use INSTALL_MASK for precisely the |
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>> above mentioned directories. |
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>> |
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>> Now the message is that users' systems will be broken if they had |
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>> followed our previous advice? Seriously? |
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> I'm pretty sure we've never officially advised anyone to remove |
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> important directories via INSTALL_MASK. INSTALL_MASK on unit |
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> directories will not affect udev users. On the other hand, if someone |
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> was overzealous and stripped whole /lib/systemd... no compassion from |
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> me, sorry. |
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Digging around, I am pretty sure I picked up the INSTALL_MASK tip from |
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something we put out. Only current info I can find so far is on the Wiki: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Without_systemd#systemd_unit_files |
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History on that page goes back to 2014, but the first mention of |
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INSTALL_MASK looks to have been added by the edit on 22 Sep 2018 @ 19:05: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Gentoo_Without_systemd&oldid=735246 |
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However, I know I've had the INSTALL_MASK lines on several of my machines |
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for a few years before that. In any case, looking into my mail archives, it |
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appears this bike shed has been painted over a few times before: |
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2012: "Global Systemd USE Flag" |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/5ca98a9af71db715fa68632ec1335755 |
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2014: "Possibility of overriding user defined INSTALL_MASK from an ebuild?" |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/c20d9ada8e05dc1707f021ff01d28802 |
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Seems like the sane option is to just drop the INSTALL_MASK and deal with a |
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gaggle of systemd unit files eating up some inode space. I obviously took |
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umbrage once upon a time, but I guess the older you get, the less you care. |
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Joshua Kinard |
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